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Stonetools
Even using the analogy of a mall, which is not accurate, when have you seen a mall tell any store that they can't sell their products lower anywhere else? More than the forcing them to the app store and charging 30% this is the biggest offense.
The new policy may make sense for publishers selling directly to Apple (Time, Menshealth etc) but as stated it would also affect Amazon and others that sell subscriptions. No matter how many people buy Amazon books or magazines on the ipad if every sale is a loss to Amazon then they can't make money. This is simple math. If it only affects magazines then maybe Amazon can just have their app only read books and not magazines but if it includes books then they would have to leave.
BTW what Amazon did by locking their device is not the same as Apple because they said so from the beginning. On the other hand people who bought the iPad for reading purposes did so under the understanding that they could read many different formats of books. So in effect Apple lied to them (directly or indirectly) and also allowed subscription apps to “exist” in an effort to attract more people to its platform. In no way is Apple recognizing the important role these apps had/have in them selling th iPad and it is wrong. Whatever anyone can say about MS they understood before anyone else that what made the PC relevant was the software hence their success.
BTW per your comments, and that of others, I would gather that MS has a right to collect a % from every sale made through Internet Explorer. I have had issues with how MS does business but Apple certainly makes them look like saints.
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